독립운동가 가족구성원으로서 여성의 삶

Abstract

In the history of Korean independence movements, many researches have been made on independence movement leaders and organizations, but attention has been paid little to independence movement leaders’ female family members who could not help being involved in the leaders’ activities. Thus, the present study examined female family members who shared the fate of independence movement leaders. The results of this study are summarized as follows. Although they were all from independence movement leaders’ families, female family members lived different lives according to the background of growth. Those who had the Confucian view of women did not escape from the value system before and after the liberation. On the contrary, women who grew through modern education lived an independent life even before the liberation, and after the liberation. The society after the liberation did not need these women. Even after the foundation of the separate government, their life was not improved. Rather they had to suffer the government’s infinite violence. However, their life began to be stabilized with the progress of democratization. Although they had to endure a long cruel time under the government’s violence, their spirit was free and dignified. The life of women educated under the Confucian view of women was seized by the overwhelming discourses of nation and state. On the contrary, those who received modern education and lived an independent life had the pride that their acts had always been right although they experienced the government’s awful violence.